Mounting a floppy drive

Ashrack · 06-11-2006, 04:10 AM

I would like to have FLOPPY drive icon always present on the desktop. Even if theres no floppy in the drive.

Using UBUNTU DAPPER with latest gnome

prozac · 06-11-2006, 04:51 AM

the subject and content of your post are completely different.
I think you can create a symlink in your desktop to point to your /mnt/floppy or whereever it is that you mount your floppy.

Ashrack · 06-11-2006, 05:07 AM

I already tried
ln -s /dev/fd0 /media/disketa

but it doesnt work. It just gives me some error

prozac · 06-11-2006, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashrack

I already tried
ln -s /dev/fd0 /media/disketa

but it doesnt work. It just gives me some error

no no create a link to /media/disketa on your desktop
ls -s /media/disketa /home/username/Desktop i guess or you can straight right-click in your desktop and select the create link or whatever it is there in gnome that lets you create a link.

also if i remember correctly there must be a option in your control center to let you do exactly as you have asked. something like 'show mounted floppy drive' and 'show unmounted floppy drive'. you just need to check mark those options.

Ashrack · 06-11-2006, 07:57 AM

/media/disketa
is always empty.
even when the diskete is in the drive.
So I must always do
mount /media/disketa
for the diskete to show on the desktop. This is not good, since this machine will be used by students and the FLOOPY icon should be on the GNOME desktop always.

prozac · 06-11-2006, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashrack

/media/disketa
is always empty.
even when the diskete is in the drive.
So I must always do
mount /media/disketa
for the diskete to show on the desktop. This is not good, since this machine will be used by students and the FLOOPY icon should be on the GNOME desktop always.

what do you plan to do?.. not teaching students how to mount a floppy?

Ashrack · 06-11-2006, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prozac

what do you plan to do?.. not teaching students how to mount a floppy?

this PCs is not for a classroom. Its more for a internet kiosk and chatting on aMSN and writing documents in OOo.

Anyway I got it working.

prozac · 06-11-2006, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashrack

This is not good, since this machine will be used by students and the FLOOPY icon should be on the GNOME desktop always.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashrack

this PCs is not for a classroom. Its more for a internet kiosk and chatting on aMSN and writing documents in OOo.

which one of these should i believe? anyway its good to hear you got it working.

Ashrack · 06-12-2006, 01:54 AM

Well both! This machine will be used by students visiting this school. But the PC wont be in a classroom it will be in the hallway so also students from the dormitory will have access to them.

More info available here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=155616

Where I asked for muchos help concerning my project and learned hell of a lot by doing it. Hell even the minister for school is comung on tuesday to see my LINUX PROJEC open source solution vs Windows in schools

prozac · 06-12-2006, 02:55 AM

well its so hard to believe you doing Linux open source project then asking here how to mount a floppy. anyway best of luck and i hope you do good.

Ashrack · 06-12-2006, 06:14 AM

Uve missuderstood me! I know very well how to mount floppy drives.

All I wanted was that FLOPPY icon would be on the desktop constantly and mounted. So a user would just insert a flopy and it would read from it. And then insert another and it would read from this one. Without unmounting the previous MOUNTED FLOPY! But apperantly this is not possible in GNOME because of FLOPPY limitations.

prozac · 06-12-2006, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashrack

Uve missuderstood me! I know very well how to mount floppy drives.

All I wanted was that FLOPPY icon would be on the desktop constantly and mounted. So a user would just insert a flopy and it would read from it. And then insert another and it would read from this one. Without unmounting the previous MOUNTED FLOPY! But apperantly this is not possible in GNOME because of FLOPPY limitations.

FLOPPY is a removable media. You can't plug/remove a removable media without mounting/unmounting under Linux and UNIX-like OS. Its a different thing some distro's automount CDs. You see you need to be clear in the concept. Its for your own knowledge and will ultimately lead to geek-dom. No offense okay.

Ashrack · 06-12-2006, 06:48 AM

Yes I know about the concept of removable media. But am just used to CDROMS and USB THUMB DRIVES witch auto mount when U insert them thanks to wonderful "pmount" in UBUNTU. I remember when I first started with LINUX it was RedHat 6 now back than auto mount was only a dream...

But I've honestly never dealed with floppies ever in LINUX so that is way the confusion came in...
No offense taken ofcourse